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Design of Composable Services

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Abstract

Service composition methods range from industry standard approaches based on Web Services and BPEL to Semantic Web approaches that rely on AI techniques to automate service discovery and composition. Service composition research mostly focuses on the dynamic (workflow) aspects of compositions. In this paper we consider the static component of service composition and discuss the importance of compatibility of service interfaces in ensuring the composability of services. Using a flight booking scenario example we show that reducing the granularity of services by decomposition into service operations with normalized interfaces produces compatible interfaces that facilitate service assembly. We then show how relational algebra can be used to represent service operations and provide a framework for service assembly.

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  • Service composition
  • service assembly
  • service reuse

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  1. Department of Information Technology, University of Economics, Prague, W. Churchill Sq. 4, Prague, Czech Republic

    George Feuerlicht

  2. Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, P.O. Box 123, Broadway, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia

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  2. Distributed Systems and Information Systems, Computer Science Department, University of Hamburg, Vogt–Kölln–Str. 30, 22527, Hamburg, Germany

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Feuerlicht, G. (2009). Design of Composable Services. In: Feuerlicht, G., Lamersdorf, W. (eds) Service-Oriented Computing – ICSOC 2008 Workshops. ICSOC 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5472. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01247-1_3

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